Russian news agency says "radicals" disrupt Kyiv event

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Around 20 people burst into the Kyiv office of the state-owned Russian news agency RIA Novosti on 19 December, demanding that a TV conference with Ukrainian cities within the framework of the congress of Ukrainian communities of Russia be stopped.

"Aggressive youths demanded that the event be finished and chanted anti-Russian slogans," the Kremlin-controlled agency said on its website.

Its journalists did not leave their workplaces and called the police. After they arrived, the young people left the office of the agency.

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